California high-speed rail consultants billed taxpayers for late-night rides

Well after dark one night last September, a highly paid consultant for the California High-Speed Rail Authority expensed a Lyft ride that pulled up outside the agency CEO's home in Folsom, California.

Just before midnight, another highly paid consultant expensed a Lyft ride from the same house back to his Sacramento hotel.

The first was Denver attorney Brent Butzin, who CBS California has independently confirmed is the legal-services consultant referenced in the High-Speed Rail inspector general's recent investigation . The second was Thierry Prate, a managing director at KPMG, the financial adviser examined in the same report.